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Crikey beat me to it. The thrust of their comment is that governments need to start acting, NOW! Oil is only going up, any talk of something else on the horizon is just a crock. Food is going up, perhaps in part because of oil, perhaps in part because of global warming and the impact on agriculture and probably because there are just more people to feed.

There are some simple facts about life in the 21st century. Fuel not only costs more, it will continue to rise in real terms due to the scarcity of supply and the compounding problem of carbon in the atmosphere. We need a cheap carbon neutral alternative yesterday. The second simple fact is people need food to survive. Sure having a shiny new gizmo is fun, but until everyone has the basics covered new toys are a luxury, a fact that seems to be lost in the west as consumption approaches something akin to religion.

Now the basic consequence of rising fuel and food prices is pretty simple. Poor people won’t be able to afford to pay. I don’t pretend to have a definitive answer but I have a feeling that there a lot of dirt poor people in the world. Even here in the so-called lucky country, the distribution of wealth in recent years has skewed significantly back in favour of those that already have enough so my guess is that this trend might be happening elsewhere. Drawing the dots together shouldn’t be too hard but there is another element in a democratic society.

Just to refresh, a democracy is a system of government where everyone (or nearly everyone) over a certain age gets to vote for the people who make the laws that we are supposed to abide by. The people thus elected agree to act in the interests of everyone even if they didn’t vote for them. Once democracy was couched in terms like “of the people, by the people and for the people”. One problem these days for democracies is a pretty big one, they are hostage to the prevailing economic conditions. This is a fairly recent phenomenon in a sense, there was a time when governments realised the importance of protecting society from free market forces, especially after the famous stock market crash in 1929 however since then and especially since the rise to power of the neoconservatives the state has capitulated on the key issue of public ownership of important infrastructure.

So the extra dot that needs to be joined is this one. The general population may one day recognise the need to actually do something big about the problems we face. They might in turn apply pressure through the ballot box to get the government of its arse, however any large scale structural changes contemplated by a government run a serious risk of having to confront the big end of town. After all they can afford to pay more so they don’t need to change a thing.

If you have any doubt as to how powerless governments have become, look at the stupid plastic shopping bag. Then look at how much money governments commit to building more roads and bigger cities. ask yourself if these are sustainable policies in light of what is what is really going on ie the price of fuel and food. Then ask yourself why the stock market continues to go up, where is all the energy and food going to come from in few years time and why aren’t our governments doing something about it, like NOW!

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Quality journalism is a labour intensive trade. Even writing a half decent blog is time consuming. The problem is that up to now our western experience with the written word is strongly rooted in a strong literary tradition, albeit one that has moved with the times. As print media was supplemented with radio and then TV, the basic ingredient of news remained the journalist and their abilities to present a view of the world the public could understand. The development of radio and TV news diversified the news environment and naturally enough led to more people working in the field, more news outlets meant more people creating the product.

The online revolution threatens to undermine this process. It seeks to centralise the source of news and then distribute to a variety of automated processes that will deliver the news to the different platforms, in the industry jargon this is summed up by the notion of “make once and play many”. So in this scenario, a radio journalist might write a story using a sub set of the same tools a TV reporter might use and ultimately using the same sources. The content is easily moved across to the online medium and can be fed to a printing press as and when required. One can easily see the attraction for media owners.

The other equally disturbing implication is the pressure to constantly create new news. On the surface this might even appear to be the saving grace for the online revolution, however it is unlikely to happen that way. The need to make more news is in the first instance going to manifest itself as pressure on existing sources to simply create more news. This pressure is the antithesis of the current journalistic process which is driven by fixed deadlines, not those that are totally fluid. Then there is the question of simply recycling and varying the content to give the appearance of change. Finally there is the problem that a much shorter timescale leads to a less well developed story.

These problems can be dealt with. The simplest way is to hire more newsmakers. Even in organisations with constraints on resources this is the obvious trade-off with the new technology. Another cost neutral idea is to develop new standards that  enshrine some of the integrity of the existing system, a protection for story development for example. But the bottom line is that more shouldn’t result in less. Less diversity, less development and less investigation means a news that loses it meaning and would be a significant threat to the public right to know and how that right underpins our western democratic tradition.

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Surrounded by a generation who cannot conceive a world without TV or the internet I often wonder what their version of reality is. With book reading continuing to decline, particularly with young readers there seems to be a trend to more easily consumed information which carries the attendant risk of trivialisation. If, as also seems the case, young people are treating TV and internet web sites as substitutes for more traditional media then there are some serious issues of truth, the public record and the role of the mass media that need to be addressed.

One concern that arises from the digital age is whether the competition between media sources will lead to a more inquisitive and diligent “news” environment or will newsmakers simply take the easiest and most sensational option in order to be first to break a story. In other words, will the news become just another consumer item to be packaged in a certain way devoid of anything unpalatable to the tastes of the those footing the bill.

If the TV news experience is anything to go by, the signs are ominous. Television in particular is guilty of “lying by omission”. It isn’t that what you see on TV is a fabrication or not real in the sense of fantasy or fiction, but it is true that it is a medium created to entertain. At its core, TV is an entertainment medium and this simply fact underscores the way TV treats the material it publishes. If it fails to entertain viewers, they will seek alternatives. The threat posed by the internet is not only that it provides a serious alternative media form, but also it can repackage and deliver existing media in different and more entertaining ways, ways which fit the consumer lifestyle better than the time consuming process of reading a book (for example).

So how does TV lie by omission? The answer is, at a variety of levels. In the very first instance is the gathering of information or sources. TV news is usually a highly networked operation which relies on established sources of “news” for a certain amount of so-called “bread and butter” issues. Political reporting is one such example, the formula is reasonably well known and the availability of material is usually tailored to suit on-air requirements. Such arrangements naturally suit established players. In a similar fashion, the recent trend to more business reporting is similarly an easy option for news makers and of course professional sport only exists with the patronage of television.

In contrast, stories about the environment for example are much harder to make. They might require a dedicated journalist, with supporting crews and an ability to travel to the story, something that in this day and age costs a lot of money and returns a limited quantity of finished product. Not only is it expensive to produce nature stories and documentaries, there is the attendant risk that it will fail the test of entertainment, regardless of the informative value of the content. Anyone doubting this possibility need only look at the relative appeals of the various high rating television productions and a recent decision by the ABC to axe its natural history department.

The truth of the TV news machine is that, when reduced to its basic elements, it is very much a manufacturing process which costs money and returns a product, which is in the main, entertainment. As Chomsky observed, with big business now owning most of the media landscape, it stands to reason those footing the bill for making the news people see on TV expect to get a certain product, they are certainly not paying the bills to get investigative and groundbreaking journalism unless it fits their agenda. A case in point, in 2005 a senior producer and others were sacked after breaking a story in the US about president Bush’s military record. As George Monbiot observed in the Guardian, such stories are common and the treatment given to the Bush story is no different to many sensational “investigations” however the reaction certainly has precedent.

The inherit conformity in the TV media landscape is compounded by internalised processes. Production becomes a formula; acquire some half interesting idea that has worked in the past, gather certain acceptable images and sound bites, splice it together in a manner that people have come to expect and present it in a authoritive corporate style. The boundaries of acceptability are known and very few if any will test the limits. This methodology applies throughout the production cycle and it is this filtering that constitutes “lying by omission”.

How can we expect the internet do be anything different and what does this mean for society when our information sources are so easily and obviously manipulated?

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